housing Archives - Page 60 of 93

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

Community Board Rejects De Blasio’s Bay Street Rezoning, Demands Changes

The conditions set by the board included 20 acres of public open space, construction of new schools, additional ferry services and making the proposed renovations to the Cromwell recreation center…

07

Jan 2019

BySadef Ali Kully 3Comments

De Blasio’s Sixth Year in Office Could Feature Three Neighborhood Rezonings

The mayor in 2015 set a goal of rezoning up to 15 neighborhoods in a drive to create more density and more affordable housing. Five rezonings have passed and at…

26

News

Forgotten Jails, Campaign Cash, Railroad Inequity and Farm Justice: 2018’s Best

City Limits spent its 43rd year doing what it has always done: Digging deep into complicated stories that matter to the city we love.

20

Government Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Stringer on Albany Pay Raise, Housing Plan; Hochul on Cuomo’s Agenda

The comptroller said he didn’t want to be a ‘rubber stamp’ for the legislature.

13

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

Diaz Suggests Landlord Tax Break in Exchange for New Rent Curbs

Citing a need to address the looming problem of preferential rents without harming landlords who operate as small businesses, the Bronx borough president backs a law to prevent sudden rent…

13

As Other Cities Look to Copy it, a Report on How Right to Counsel is Working in NYC

San Francisco voters approved a similar program, Los Angeles lawmakers tasked that city’s housing department with developing one, and places like Philly, Newark and the nation’s capital are headed down…

Government Housing and Homelessness

30

Nov 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Amazon Will Deliver More Displacement to NYC’s Working Class

‘De Blasio and Cuomo are introducing a giant mechanism for displacement into communities that government already fails so shamefully.’

ByShekar Krishnan

ByLina Lee

ByGregory Louis 1Comment

29

Nov 2018

Comptroller Says Housing Plan is Failing, Calls for More Units for Low-Income NYers

Stringer’s plan would shift the remaining 85,000 units of new construction under the mayor’s plan to serve very low-income and extremely low-income families.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

29

Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

Max & Murphy: The City’s Homelessness Crisis and the Mayor’s Housing Plan

A top homelessness policy advocate and the city’s chief affordable-housing development official discuss the pros and cons of the de Blasio housing plan.